American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Archives collections belonging to and managed by the Museum's Department of Ornithology.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Australia-Buller Expedition collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn199
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, map, photograph, species list, and field notebooks from 1947 and 1948 expeditions.
Dates:
1947-1948
E. Thomas Gilliard collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn190
Scope and Contents
Expedition records including equipment lists, field notes, catalogs and journals for travel in New Guinea, British Guiana, New Britain, Venezuela, Nepal, Little Tobago, West Indies, Colorado, Canada, the Philippines and Colombia; manuscripts and notes for published and unpublished work; biographical and educational information and honors; press clippings; photographs, negatives and lantern slides; correspondence; newspaper clippings; personal papers; 8 volumes; bird lists; lecture notes;...
Dates:
1936-circa 1970s
Heinrich Expedition collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn126
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, list of Heinrich's collection, clipping
Dates:
1930-1956
Rollo Beck Expedition to New Guinea collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn72
Scope and Contents
Field catalog, journal and field notes, with notes by Mayr and Gilliard. Also includes correspondence and photographs.
Dates:
1928-1929
Rothschild collection - Godeffroy Queensland Collectors
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn92
Scope and Contents
Letter from Ernst Mayr to Charles E. O'Brien.
Dates:
1959
Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn119
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes by E. Mayr
Dates:
1935-1938
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn60
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bound volumes, notes, correspondence, photographs, log books and journals. The material has been arranged into three series. The collection is largely comprised of thirty-three Bound Volumes (Series I) that contain letters and journal entries written by the field researchers that participated in the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Many of these bound volumes store additional material including hand-drawn maps, specimen sketches, photographs and a few handwritten...
Dates:
1920-2007